Title: Certain database tables rapidly changing
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Certain database tables rapidly changing

 *  [dryke_chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dryke_chris/)
 * (@dryke_chris)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/certain-database-tables-rapidly-changing/)
 * I’ve noticed while viewing the database in PHPMyAdmin for my WordPress site that
   the size of the _commentmeta, _comments and _postmeta tables are changing rapidly.
   I refresh the database tables listing and find the number of rows increase as
   much as in the tens of thousands within seconds and then return to a single base
   number and then back up again. I also noticed that this happens even after I 
   completely remove my wordpress files from my site. I don’t see any cron jobs 
   for this site configured on the server and the event scheduler is off for this
   database. This seems to be really bogging down the server and I don’t know how
   to fix this. When I clear out one of these offending tables, it discontinues 
   this activity, which makes me wonder if there’s something inside the tables doing
   this? This is just a really odd problem.

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